Well.....recently picked this up. A 20+ y.o. Spector 12ver husk. Dual-truss, 7-piece neck-thru with abalone inlays. It's routed perfectly for TBird pickups and has posts for a Hamer 12ver bridge, all,of which I already have for it.
Also have all the Schallers I need.
Just needs to be painted and put together.
Also snagged a same period fretless Spector, complete except for the PJ PUPs.
Long story....but they were sitting at a luthier friend of mine.s shop, apparently a loooong time. He got them in a pile of stuff he bought from someone years ago. He isn't familiar with 12vers, so just had it sitting on a shelf all these years.
While snagging two cool Spectors might normally be a cool enough story.....that is the boring part of the story. My friend also happened to grow up as a close pal of Jaco Pastorius in FL and NYC. He can also play great and toured as bassist in Blood Sweat & Tears.
So.....he pulls out a 1960 fretless Jazz Bass that Jaco gave him as a present many years ago. That alone was cool to see. I didn't think he'd actually hand it to me to play. Even cooler.
And that after I played a jazzy "Norwegian Wood," to have him say "very cool" was even better.
The bass is a natural color, recleared over the typical screw holes from a missing pick-guard...inlaid plastic wood in the defretted neck that is cleared over with somethng. Incredibly cool bass that played fantastic.
I had brought over my Lane Poor Minima 5-string that Lane gave me years ago and one of those oddball semi-teardrop Gibson prototypes I have. He said I hold the record for the two weirdest basses to walk i to the shop together.
Will qdd a photo of the Spector later. The one I have is too big to upload.